AN INCREASING EVIL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3016, 12 October 1908, Page 5

AN INCREASING EVIL.

THE UNEMPLOYED PROBLEM. THE UNDERLYING CAUSES. SPEECH BY MR CHURCHILL. Received October 10, 4.30 p.m. LONDON, October 10. Mr Winston Churchill delivered a speech at Dundee, in which he referred to the underlying causes of unemployment. Ho enumerated various unhealthy industrial conditions which must be attacked in order to find a remedy. This would entail special measures of a social and equally economic character, carrying hs into new untrodden fields of British politics. He enumerated the lack of any central organisation of industry or any general concerted control of ordinary Government work or extraordinary relief works. The Board of Trade might estimate the degree of unemployment during any winter and some Government office should arrange for thfr distribution of Government contracts accordingly, or expand certain uncompetitive works like afforestation. Mr Churchill condemn:d the gross increasing evil of casual and boy labour. He hinted that the casual unskilled laoourer was not the result of' an accident, but the result of economic causes too long unregulated. He should be manufactured into an article required to suit the convenience of industries at particular times. Practicable means existed for a great diminution of this evil. Up to eighteen years every boy and girl ought to be learning a trade as well as earning a living. He believed that thousands of wealthy persons were willing to make the neceasary sacrifice to secure more elaborate school organisations.